THE major rendezvous for young filmmakers in Europe!
The second largest short film festival in France and Europe, unique due to its European dimension, the Brest Festival, set up in 1986, plays an important role on the local and regional cultural scene, by offering the public a cinematic event each year during November, at the Quartz theatre and the Liberté multiplex in Brest, Brittany.

Festival presentation

Objectives and goals

Our objective is to showcase how creative and dynamic young European cinema is, and to introduce audiences to filmmakers, who, after showing short films at the Brest Festival, go on to present feature films at festivals such as Cannes.

The Festival is a meeting-point for filmmaking professionals, where they get together to make deals and begin new collaborations. The Festival is also the place where audiences can meet with people from the film industry and find out more about filmmaking and its different creative processes. To this end, the Festival organises different events and workshops – rare and special occasions that enable cinema-goers to meet the people who make films and also gives them the opportunity to go behind the scenes.

PROGRAMMES

With its three competition sections (European, French and OVNI/UFO) and its thematic programmes, the festival offers up a choice selection of European short films. Lots of non-competition programmes are also screened: Brest Off, now the festival showcase for genre cinema; Made in Breizh, which highlights films directed and/or filmed in Brittany; Panorama Animation, which sheds light on the wealth of European animation; the Young Audience programme with its sections for different age-groups and family-viewing; and also the special screenings about a filmmaker, a production company or an organisation that encourages film creation. So go get your pass for the Planet of Short Film!